Killarney Vale: Simon Tonkin, 37, pleads guilty after stabbing partner’s ex
A man has admitted to assaulting his partner and stabbing her ex in the neck with a steak knife after a four-day drinking bender descended into violence.
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A man told police it was “about time I f**king fight” after stabbing his partner’s ex in the neck with a steak knife.
Simon Tonkin, 37, of Killarney Vale, faced Wyong Local Court on Tuesday, when he pleaded guilty to wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, reckless wounding and assault.
An agreed set of facts states Tonkin had been drinking for three days when he became involved in an argument with his partner at their Avery St home on Sunday, November 19.
The facts state he threw a ceramic candle holder at her which struck her above the eye and caused a small cut.
The pair settled down and went to bed but the next morning he went down to the shops to buy more grog, which he brought home and they started drinking again.
By about 1.45pm, they started arguing again and she called her ex-partner to come and pick her up.
Her ex-partner parked outside and other witnesses could hear Tonkin inside shouting until he went into the kitchen and “grabbed two knives out of the kitchen drawer”.
“The offender ‘bolted’ out the front door holding a knife in his right hand and jumped the fence,” the facts state.
“His arm was extended, and the knife was pointed at [the victim]. The knife was a steak knife, with a black handle and a silver blade. The offender headed towards [the victim] who was standing at his car, next to the driver’s seat door.
“[The victim] said words to the effect, ‘What are you gunna do with that, stab me?’. The offender didn’t say anything but ran at [the victim] and stabbed him on the left side of his neck.
“[The victim] grabbed the offender’s wrist as he was doing this, and pulled the offender’s hand, which was holding the knife, away from his neck. He ‘threw’ the offender to the ground and disarmed him. [The victim] snapped the knife in half on the road so that the offender couldn’t stab him with it again and threw it away from him. [The victim] jumped on the offender and punched him, and they both started wrestling and rolling around on the ground.”
Witnesses intervened and Tonkin went back inside, where he started “frantically” washing the victim’s blood off himself.
A short time later, Tonkin again emerged from the house brandishing another knife.
Just as he was coming out, a police car arrived and he threw the knife away.
He was arrested and later told officers that he thought “f..k it” and it was “about time I f...ing fight him”.
He initially denied assaulting his partner with the candle holder, telling officers she was drunk and “fell in the bathtub”.
“The offender told police that he had been drinking and had seven beers and two bourbons and a few hours’ sleep,” the facts state.
Tonkin’s case was adjourned until August 29, when he is set to face Gosford District Court to fix a sentence date.
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